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Brand Act III Part 2 · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act III, Part II, of Brand, by Henrik Ibsen. Translated
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  Speaker 1: by Charles Harold Hereford, 1853-1931. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Recording by Expatriate in Bangor, Maine. Act III,
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  Speaker 1: Part II. Brand. To a man's feet his native haunt
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  Speaker 1: is as unto the tree the root. if there his
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  Speaker 1: labour fill no want his deeds are doom'd his music
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  Speaker 1: mute the mayor success means just self adaptation to the
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  Speaker 1: requirements of the nation which from the heights you best
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  Speaker 1: o'erlook not from the crag encompass nook the mayor that
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  Speaker 1: talk is fit for citizens not for poor peasants of
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  Speaker 1: the glens brand oh still your limitation vain between the
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  Speaker 1: mountain and the plain world's citizens you'd be of right
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  Speaker 1: while every civic claim you slight and think like dastards
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  Speaker 1: to go free by whining we're a small folk the
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  Speaker 1: mayor all has its time each time its need each
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  Speaker 1: age its proper work to do we also flung our
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  Speaker 1: might into the world's great treasure of bold deed true
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  Speaker 1: that's long since but after all the might was not
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  Speaker 1: so very small now the land's dwindled and decayed but
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  Speaker 1: our renown still lives in story the days of our
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  Speaker 1: reported glory were when the great king bele swayed many
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  Speaker 1: a tale is still related about the brothers wulf and
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  Speaker 1: tor and gallant fellows by the score went harrying to
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  Speaker 1: the british shore and plundered till their heart was sated
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  Speaker 1: the southrons shrieked with quivering lip lord help us from
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  Speaker 1: these fierce men's grip and these fierce men beyond all
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  Speaker 1: doubt had from our harbours sallied out and how these
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  Speaker 1: rovers wreaked their ire and dealt out death with sword
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  Speaker 1: and fire nay legend names a lion-hearted hero that took
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  Speaker 1: the cross in verity it is not mentioned that he
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  Speaker 1: started brand he left behind a large posterity this promise-maker
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  Speaker 1: the mayor yes indeed but how came you to brand
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  Speaker 1: oh i read his features clearly in the breed of
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  Speaker 1: promised heroes of to-day who take the cross in just
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  Speaker 1: his way the mayor yes his descendants still remain but
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  Speaker 1: we were on king bele's reign so first abroad we
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  Speaker 1: battled then visited our own countrymen and kinsmen with the
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  Speaker 1: axe and fire trampled their harvests gaily down scorched mansion
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  Speaker 1: wall and village spire and wove ourselves the hero's crown
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  Speaker 1: over the blood thus set a-flowing there's been perhaps excessive
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  Speaker 1: crowing but after what i've said i may i think
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  Speaker 1: without a touch of vanity point backward to the stir
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  Speaker 1: we made in the great age long since decayed and
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  Speaker 1: hold that we indeed have paid our little mite of
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  Speaker 1: fire and fray towards the progress of humanity brand yet
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  Speaker 1: do you not in fact eschew the phrase nobility's a
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  Speaker 1: trust and drive hoe plough and harrow through king bele's
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  Speaker 1: patrimonial dust the mayor by no means only go and
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  Speaker 1: mark our parish on its gaudy nights where i with
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  Speaker 1: constable and clerk and judge preside as leading lights you'll
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  Speaker 1: warrant when the punch goes round king bele's memory is
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  Speaker 1: sound with toasts and clinking cups and song and speeches
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  Speaker 1: short and speeches long we drink his health and sound
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  Speaker 1: his fame i myself often feel inclined the spinnings of
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  Speaker 1: my brain to wind in flowery woof about his name
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  Speaker 1: and edify the local mind a little poetry pleases me
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  Speaker 1: and all our folks in their degree but moderation everywhere
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  Speaker 1: in life it never must have share except at night
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  Speaker 1: when folks have leisure between the hours of seven and
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  Speaker 1: ten when baths of elevating pleasure may fit the mood
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  Speaker 1: of weary men here's where we differ you and i
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  Speaker 1: that you desire with main and might at the same
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  Speaker 1: time to plough and fight your scheme as far as
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  Speaker 1: i can see is life and faith in unity God's
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  Speaker 1: warfare and potato-dressing Inseparably coalescing, As coal, salt, sulphur, fusing fast,
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  Speaker 1: Evolve just gunpowder at last. Brand. Somewhat so. The Mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Here you'll scheme in vain. Out in the great world
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  Speaker 1: that may stand, Go thither with your big demand, And
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  Speaker 1: let us plough our moors and main. Brand. plough first
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  Speaker 1: your brag of old renown into the main and plough
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  Speaker 1: it down the pigmy is not more the man for
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  Speaker 1: being of goliath's clan the mayor great memories bear the
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  Speaker 1: seed of growth yes memories that to life are bound
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  Speaker 1: but you of memory's empty mound have made a stalking
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  Speaker 1: horse for sloth the mayor i said at first and
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  Speaker 1: still i say to leave us were the wisest way
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  Speaker 1: your work here cannot come to good nor your ideas
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  Speaker 1: be understood the little flights to purer air the lifting
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  Speaker 1: up which now and then is doubtless well for working
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  Speaker 1: men shall be my unremitting care many agreeable facts declare
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  Speaker 1: my ceaseless energy as mayor through me the population's grown
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  Speaker 1: double nay almost three to one since for the district
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  Speaker 1: i have bred ever new ways of getting fed with
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  Speaker 1: stubborn nature still at strife we've steam'd ahead our forward
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  Speaker 1: march here hew'd a road there flung an arch to
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  Speaker 1: lead from brand not from faith to life the mayor
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  Speaker 1: to lead from fjordside to the hill brand but not
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  Speaker 1: from doctrine unto will the mayor first of all get
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  Speaker 1: a passage clear from men to men from place to
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  Speaker 1: place there were no two opinions here on that until
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  Speaker 1: you showed your face now you've made all confusion dashing
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  Speaker 1: aurora flames with lantern light with such cross luminaries flashing
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  Speaker 1: who can distinguish wrong from right tell what will mar
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  Speaker 1: and what will mend all divers things you mix and
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  Speaker 1: blend and into hostile camps divide those who should triumph
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  Speaker 1: side by side brand here notwithstanding i abide man chooses
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  Speaker 1: not his labour's sphere who knows and follows out his
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  Speaker 1: call has seen god's writing on the wall in words
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  Speaker 1: of fire your place is here the mayor stay then
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  Speaker 1: but keep within your borders You're free to purge the
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  Speaker 1: folk of crimes, vices, and other rifle disorders. God knows
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  Speaker 1: it's needed oftentimes. But don't make every working day a
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath and your flag display as if the Almighty were
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  Speaker 1: on board of every skiff that skims the fjord. Brand,
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  Speaker 1: to use your counsel, I must change my soul in
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  Speaker 1: all her visions range. But we are called ourselves to
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  Speaker 1: be our own cause bear to victory. And I will
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  Speaker 1: bear it till the land is all illumined where i
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  Speaker 1: stand the people your bureaucrat crew have lulled asleep shall
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  Speaker 1: wake anew too long you've cramped and caged apart these
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  Speaker 1: remnants of the mountain heart out of your niggard hunger
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  Speaker 1: cure they pass dejected dull demure their best their bravest
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  Speaker 1: blood you tap scoop out their marrow and their sap
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  Speaker 1: pound into splinters every soul that should have stood a
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  Speaker 1: welded hole but you may live to hear the roar
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  Speaker 1: of revolution thunder war the mayor war war the mayor
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  Speaker 1: be sure if you should call to arms you'll be
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  Speaker 1: the first to fall brand the day will come when
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  Speaker 1: we shall know that triumph's height is overthrow the mayor
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  Speaker 1: consider brand you have to choose don't stake your fortune
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  Speaker 1: on one card brand i do however the mayor if
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  Speaker 1: you lose your life's irreparably marred all this world's bounties
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  Speaker 1: you possess you a rich mother's only heir with wife
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  Speaker 1: and child to be your care it was a kindly
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  Speaker 1: hand confess that dealt your terms of happiness brand and
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  Speaker 1: what if i should all the same reject these terms
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  Speaker 1: and must the mayor your game is over if you've
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  Speaker 1: once unfurled in this last cranny of the world the
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  Speaker 1: standard of your world-wide war turn southward to yon prosperous
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  Speaker 1: shore where a man dares lift up his head there
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  Speaker 1: you may pirerate of right and bid them bleed and
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  Speaker 1: bid them fight our bloodshed is the sweat we pour
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  Speaker 1: on daily ringing rocks for bread Brand, here I remain.
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  Speaker 1: My home is here, and here the battle flag I'll rear.
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  Speaker 1: The mayor, think what you lose if overthrown, and chiefly
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  Speaker 1: think of what you quit. Brand, myself I lose if
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  Speaker 1: I submit. The mayor, hopeless is he that fights alone. Brand,
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  Speaker 1: the best are with me. The mayor, smiling, that may be,
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  Speaker 1: but they're the most who follow me. goes brand looking
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  Speaker 1: after him a people's champion thoroughbred active with fair and
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  Speaker 1: open hand honest of heart and sound of head but
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  Speaker 1: yet a scourge upon the land no avalanche no winter
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  Speaker 1: blast no flood nor frost nor famine fast leaves half
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  Speaker 1: the ruin in its rear that such a man does
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  Speaker 1: year by year life only by a plague is rapt
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  Speaker 1: but he how many a thought is cleft how many
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  Speaker 1: an eager will made numb how many a valiant song
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  Speaker 1: struck dumb by such a narrow soul as this what
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  Speaker 1: smiles on simple faces breaking what fires in lowly bosoms
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  Speaker 1: waking what pangs of joy and anger seed that might
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  Speaker 1: have ripened into deed die by that bloodless blade of
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  Speaker 1: his suddenly in anxiety but oh the summons the summons
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  Speaker 1: no it is the doctor enter doctor hurries to meet
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  Speaker 1: him say say how the doctor she stands before her
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  Speaker 1: maker now dead but repentant the doctor scarcely so she
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  Speaker 1: hugged earth's goods with all her heart till the hour
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  Speaker 1: struck and they must part brand looking straight before him
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  Speaker 1: in deep emotion is here an erring soul undone the
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  Speaker 1: doctor she will be mildly judged maybe and law-tempered with
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  Speaker 1: equity brand in a low tone what said she the
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  Speaker 1: doctor lo she muttered he is no hard dealer like
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  Speaker 1: my son brand sinking in anguish upon the bench guilt
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  Speaker 1: wrong or dying still that lie that every soul is
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  Speaker 1: ruined by hides his face in his hands the doctor
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  Speaker 1: goes towards him looks at him and shakes his head
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  Speaker 1: you seek a day that is no more in one
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  Speaker 1: and all things to restore you think god's venerable pact
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  Speaker 1: with men is still a living fact each age in
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  Speaker 1: its own way will walk ours is not scared by
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  Speaker 1: nurses talk of hell-bound soul and burning brand humanity's our
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  Speaker 1: first command brand looking up humanity that sluggard phrase is
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  Speaker 1: the world's watchword nowadays with this each bungler hides the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he dare not and will not act with
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  Speaker 1: this each weakling masks the lie that he'll risk all
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  Speaker 1: for victory with this each dastard dares to cloak vows
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  Speaker 1: faintly rude and lightly broke your puny spirits will turn
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  Speaker 1: man himself humanitarian was god humane when jesus died had
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  Speaker 1: your god then his counsel given christ at the cross
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  Speaker 1: for grace had cried and the redemption signified a diplomatic
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  Speaker 1: note from heaven hides his head and sits in mute
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  Speaker 1: grief the doctor softly rage rage thy fill thou soul
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  Speaker 1: storm stressed best were it for thee to find tears
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  Speaker 1: agnes comes out on to the steps pale and terrified
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  Speaker 1: she whispers to the doctor in follow me the doctor
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  Speaker 1: you raise my fears what is it child agnes into
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  Speaker 1: my breast creeps cold a serpent of a fright the
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  Speaker 1: doctor what is it agnes pulling him away come great
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  Speaker 1: god of might they go into the house bran does
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  Speaker 1: not notice brand to himself impenitent alive and dead this
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  Speaker 1: is the finger of the lord now through my means
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  Speaker 1: shall be restored the treasure she has forfeited else tenfold
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  Speaker 1: woe upon my head mine is that will and that
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  Speaker 1: strong trust that crumbles mountains into dust the doctor followed
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  Speaker 1: by agnes comes hastily out and cries order your house
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  Speaker 1: and haste away where there an earthquake i would stay
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  Speaker 1: the doctor then you have doomed your child to death
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  Speaker 1: brand wildly the child alf what phantom wraith of fear
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  Speaker 1: is this my child is about to rush into the
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  Speaker 1: house the doctor holding him back stay stay here summer
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  Speaker 1: sunshine pierces not here polar ice-blasts rive and rend here
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  Speaker 1: dank and stifling mists descend another winter in this spot
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  Speaker 1: will shrivel the tender life away go hence you'll save
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  Speaker 1: him no delay to-morrow's best brand to-night to-day now ere
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  Speaker 1: another hour is out oh yet he shall grow strong
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  Speaker 1: and stout no blast from mountain or from shore shall
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  Speaker 1: chill his baby bosom more come agnes lift him gently
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  Speaker 1: and sleep away along the winding deep oh agnes agnes
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  Speaker 1: death has spun his web about our little son agnes
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  Speaker 1: foreboding trembled in my heart and yet i only knew
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  Speaker 1: a part brand to the doctor but flight will save
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  Speaker 1: him that is sure the doctor the life of father
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  Speaker 1: day and night watches all perils can endure be all
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  Speaker 1: to him and healthy bright you soon shall see him
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  Speaker 1: be secure thanks thanks to agnes in down enclose him
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  Speaker 1: well chill sweeps the night-wind from the fell agnes goes
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  Speaker 1: in the doctor silently watches brand who gazes fixedly through
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  Speaker 1: the door then goes to him and lays his hand
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  Speaker 1: on his shoulder the doctor so tender to his own
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  Speaker 1: distress and to the world so merciless for them avails
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  Speaker 1: not more nor less only laws absolute nought or all
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  Speaker 1: but now no sooner sees he fall the dooming lot
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  Speaker 1: his valour's flown the sacrificial lamb's his own brand what
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  Speaker 1: mean you the doctor in the dying ear you thundered
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  Speaker 1: the decree of fear to perish unless all she gave
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  Speaker 1: and went down naked to the grave and that cry
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  Speaker 1: rang again again when need was direst among men you're
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  Speaker 1: now the shipwrecked sailor cleaving to swamp boat through the
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  Speaker 1: storms of doom and from its upturned bottom heaving to
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  Speaker 1: see your tracks on wrath to come to see to
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  Speaker 1: see the bulky tome that struck your brother's bosom's home
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  Speaker 1: now you ask only wind and wave to waft your
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  Speaker 1: infant from death's reach fly only fly by bay and
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  Speaker 1: beach fly from your very mother's grave fly from the
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  Speaker 1: souls you're sent to save the parson does not mean
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  Speaker 1: to preach brand wildly clutching his head as if to
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  Speaker 1: gather his thoughts am i now blind or was i
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  Speaker 1: the doctor nay a father has no other way don't
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  Speaker 1: fancy that your act i blame i hold you greater
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  Speaker 1: clipped and tame than in your giant strength secure farewell
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  Speaker 1: i've held you up a glass use it and sigh
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  Speaker 1: alas alas is this a titan's portraiture brand gazing a
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  Speaker 1: while before him then bursts out before or now when
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  Speaker 1: did i stray agnes comes out with a cloak over
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  Speaker 1: her shoulders and the child in her arms brand does
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  Speaker 1: not see her she is about to speak but stands
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  Speaker 1: petrified with terror at the look in his face at
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  Speaker 1: the same moment a man comes in hastily through the
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  Speaker 1: garden gate the sun is setting the man archpriest you
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  Speaker 1: have a foe brand clenching his hand against his breast
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  Speaker 1: yes here the man watch well the mayor the seed
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  Speaker 1: you sow sprang ever bravely into ear till blighting slanders
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  Speaker 1: laid it low with meaning hints he has implied that
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  Speaker 1: by and by this house would lack a tenant and
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  Speaker 1: you'd turn your back the day your wealthy mother died
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  Speaker 1: brand and if it were so the man priest i
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  Speaker 1: know you know why these poisonous tales are rife you
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  Speaker 1: stood against him still at strife he could not bend
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  Speaker 1: your purpose lo you that's what these slanders signified brand
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  Speaker 1: hesitating suppose the case that he spoke true the man
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  Speaker 1: then to us all you basely lied brand have i
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  Speaker 1: the man how oft you've told us you that god
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  Speaker 1: has called you to the strife that here you've made
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  Speaker 1: your home for life that here you'll bear the battle
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  Speaker 1: through that none may shirk the call to serve that
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  Speaker 1: all must fight and never swerve you have the call
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  Speaker 1: how flames and flashes in many a heart the fire
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  Speaker 1: you've fed this people's heart is hard and dead their
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  Speaker 1: ear is deaf their fire is ashes the man oh
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  Speaker 1: you know better radiant day to many a heart has
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  Speaker 1: found its way brand in tenfold others all is night
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  Speaker 1: the man you're sent to be their beacon-light but be
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  Speaker 1: the numbers as you choose here is no need to
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  Speaker 1: closely scan for here i stand one only man and
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  Speaker 1: bid you leave us if you can i have a
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  Speaker 1: soul i would not lose like others books i cannot
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  Speaker 1: use you bore me from the depths below try if
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  Speaker 1: you can now let me go you cannot i so
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  Speaker 1: closely grip my soul were lost if i should slip
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  Speaker 1: farewell i look to learn at last my priest by
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  Speaker 1: me and god stands fast agnes timidly your lips are
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  Speaker 1: blanched and white your cheek you seem to utter an
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  Speaker 1: inward shriek brand each strong word flung at yonder rock
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  Speaker 1: thrills back with tenfold echoes shock agnes advancing a step
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  Speaker 1: i'm ready brand ready whereunto agnes vehemently for what a
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  Speaker 1: mother needs must do gerd runs by outside and stops
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  Speaker 1: at the garden gate claps her hands and cries in
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  Speaker 1: wild joy have you heard the priests flown off up
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  Speaker 1: from hillock's out-of-house swarmed the demons and the drows black
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  Speaker 1: and ugly big and little ugh how fierce they cut
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  Speaker 1: and cuff half my eye away they whittle half my
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  Speaker 1: soul they've carried off with the stump i'll e'en make
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  Speaker 1: shift it will serve me well enough brand girl your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are all adrift see i stand before you you
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  Speaker 1: ay but not the parson swift from the peak my
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  Speaker 1: falcon flew fiercely down the fells he hied him he
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  Speaker 1: was bitted and saddled too through the nightfall blast he
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  Speaker 1: hissed and a man was set astride him twas the
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  Speaker 1: parson twas the priest now the valley church is bare
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  Speaker 1: lock and bar are bolted there ugly church's day is
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  Speaker 1: past mine shall get its due at last there the
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  Speaker 1: priest stands tall and strong snowy surplice swathes his flank
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  Speaker 1: woven of winter's drip and dank if you'd see him
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  Speaker 1: come along parish church is bare and blank my priest
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  Speaker 1: has so brave a song that the whole earth rings
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  Speaker 1: to hear it brand who has bidden thee shattered spirit
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  Speaker 1: lure me with this idle lay gert coming into the
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  Speaker 1: garden idols idols what are they oho that is what
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  Speaker 1: you mean giant or pigmy large or lean always gilded
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  Speaker 1: always gay idols look you where she stands see you
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  Speaker 1: neath her mantle stray baby feet and baby hands see
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  Speaker 1: you how those robes are gay that close folded something
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  Speaker 1: keep like a little child asleep back she shudders hides
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  Speaker 1: her son idols man i show you one agnes have
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  Speaker 1: you tears brand can you pray terror scorches mine away
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  Speaker 1: brand woe's me agnes i forebode in her words the
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  Speaker 1: voice of god hark now all the bells are loud
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  Speaker 1: clanging down the savage fells see what moving masses crowd
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  Speaker 1: upwards to those bidding bells see the thousand trolls uprisen
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  Speaker 1: from the ocean caves their prison see the thousand dwarfs
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  Speaker 1: up leaping from the graves where they were sleeping with
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  Speaker 1: the priest's seal on them set grave and ocean cannot
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  Speaker 1: bind them out there swarming chill and wet troll babes
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  Speaker 1: that but sham to die grinning roll the rocks behind
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  Speaker 1: them mother father hark they cry goodman goodwife make reply
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  Speaker 1: then as fathers among sons move among their buried ones
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  Speaker 1: women lay there risen dead at their bosoms to be
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  Speaker 1: fed strutted scarce with prouder front when they bore them
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  Speaker 1: to the font life begins the parsons fled brand get
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  Speaker 1: thee from me dire or still grows the vision gert
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  Speaker 1: hark he's mocking he that sits by yon way border
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  Speaker 1: where it rears to scale the hill all their names
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that they go flocking in his book he writes in
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: order ho he's well nigh all the pack for the
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: parish church is bare lock and bar are bolted there
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and parsons off on falcon back leaps over the garden
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: fence and is lost in the moraine stillness agnes approaches
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and says in a low voice late we linger let
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  Speaker 1: us go brand looking fixedly at her shall our way
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: be points first to the garden gate then to the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: house door so or so agnes starts back shuddering brand
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: your child your child brand following her say rather was
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: i priest ere i was father agnes drawing further back
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: though in thunder crash it peel'd unto that my lips
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: are seal'd brand following you are mother it is due
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: that the last word come from you agnes i am
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: wife i shall fulfil all that you have heart to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: will brand trying to grasp her arm take the cup
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: of choice from me agnes retreating behind the tree mother
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: then i should not be brand there a judgment is
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: let fall agnes vehemently have you any choice at all
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: brand still the judgment gathering force agnes trust you wholly
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: in god's call brand yes grasp her hand firmly and
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: now tis yours to give final sentence die or live
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: agnes go where god has fixed your course pause brand
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: late we linger let us go agnes shall our way
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: be brand silent agnes pointing to the garden gate so
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: brand pointing to the house door nay so agnes raising
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the child aloft in her arms god the gift thou
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: canst require i can lift it to thy sight guide
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: me through life's martyr fire goes in brand gazes awhile
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: before him bursts into tears clasps his hands over his
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: head throws himself down on the steps and cries jesus
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: jesus give me light End of Act 3, recording by
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Expatriate in Bangor, Maine.